Marcel Samyn

Hello.

I’m on a mission to build better lives by building a better life.

I love showing people what’s possible with technology, learning about a broad
range of topics and applying that combined knowledge to hard problems, thinking
about how to live a more enthousiastic life and giving insights, uncommon ideas
and help so we can grow together.

Interests

Improving lives with technology

Becoming the best person possible

Artificial Intelligence

Playing on playgrounds

Leadership

Education

Master in Computer Science Engineering, 2018

Ghent University (UGent)

Recent Posts

It kind of feels like waking up from a nightmare.
That moment.
It could be while you’re falling asleep after a lazy day, or when you’re just out, getting drunk and dancing inappropriately.
“💩, I had resolutions. I was going to do it better this time.”
It’s okay, I’ve been there. We’ve all been there.
But there’s one habit that has prevented it from happening to me. It’s so simple you might stop reading—that’s okay, just remember that it doesn’t count until you’re actually doing it.

I see the morning as being the foundation of my day. If I mess it up, I feel tired, I’m distracted and get pissed too easily. It’s not fun. So, feel miserable about waking up? Need six hours to get out of your drowsiness? Tired and get nothing done during the day? Let me show you how I fixed it.
The first moments after you open your eyes are the most important.

To become massively successful, you need to give massive value to the world. But if you think you can do that by hustling and grinding day and night, I’m sorry to say, you’re wrong. You see, playing with time is an inherently losing game: we all have only 24 hours a day—actually a lot less when you factor in that you need quality sleep, downtime and time to reward yourself.

You saw some inspirational video on YouTube or talked to someone that challenged you and now you’re on fire. You work all day, get more done than you did the entire week and go to bed as a proud human.
The next day it’s all back to how it was before. How? Why? What happened? I mean, you know it’s physically possible to kick ass—so why don’t you?
These moments of inspiration are great because they can kickstart us into a new project, a different idea of maybe just back in the right direction.

This is a very dense summary of the topic of Big Data Science, i.e., the intersection of Big Data and Data Science. It's my summary for the course with the same name I followed at Ghent University in 2018.
If you're new to the topic and adventurous or interested in what you might not know yet, you can use this to get an idea of the topic and use it as starting point for further research.